I was only able to do this after i got a question with alternative ingredient

Blue food/materials are worth 5 whites and greens are worth 3 whites. Putting too many ingredients into a recipe doesn't help but if you were making beer, which calls for 5 wheat/corn/barley/potato/sweet potato, you can use 1 blue or 2 green instead of 5 whites. If you're like me and farming, eventually all your seeds become blue and trying to keep whites is difficult. For Pure Liquid Reagent and Pure Powder Reagent, it's better to put a worker on a Silver Azelea and Sunrise Herb so you have a stockpile of white materials.